Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-06-16
THE RECORD OF REPUBLICANISM

THE RECORD OF REPUBLICANISM
The Republican party Of to-day is the
spector OF frightful past. 1t will not
suffer the Nation to forget Turn which
way they will and the people are con-
fronted by this ghastly apparation known
as the Republican party. 1t is blind to
the present aud deaf to the future 1t
sees only that which is gone. and
hearkens only to echoes. Its glance is
ever backward. Its vision is the vision
of blood, and its memory is the memory
OF tears.
OF these things is the birthright of the
Republican party. 1t is but the fulfill
ment that is here. As was
the promise so is the performance From
its inception the Republican party has
been the party of the armed hand.
With it might has ever been right
With it the lust of desire has
ever been the yoke-fellow of brute force
1t has been a spoiler from its birth.
Graded in blood, its fierce and pitiless
strength has drawn sustenance from the
convulsions of the state. In its savage
infancy it revelled in the outrages
of the Kansas border, and in
pitiless manhood it delighted in
the fierce infamies of the carpet
bag era in the South. It has ever been
party Of sectionalism, of hate, of pro-
scription, Of political savagery, and Of
public plunder. Its campaign fund has
ever been a stern exaction, and has been
wrung from the people as military
tribute.
Overthrown at last by an outraged and
indignant people, it is still true to its
record; is still instinct with the spirit of
its birth. OF such is the cling
ing to the old war-taxes imposed
by i,-r'f its own aggrandizement; Of
such sectionalism and hate pro-
claimed in the Springfield speech Of
John Sherrl N; of such is the St. Louis
Grand ARR 'c;dent.
In in!an, success or in de-
served 1.sa Al the same Re-
publican ch racteristics are dis
played. Reoub cauism means only one
thing, and will mean only one thing for
ever. That ou5 thing is savage central
ization Of party power for selfish party
purposes. Progress, advancement, fra
ternal feeling, the Nations unity, il
knows naught Of. It ha= only one idea,
and that idea is self, supported by the
iron hand Of armed scctionalism. The
Republican party organization eschews
popular principles. 7 is essentially 9
party OF leaders. These leaders alone
WELD the party power. The party itself
is political dictatorship. Republican.
ism can mean nothing else but centrali-
zation, and Capitalization is tyranny and
oppression.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer thus voices
the Capitalization record Of the Republic
can party: ''For twenty years our Gov
ernment was controlled by men who
would, had they the power, have wiped
ont the existence of our free institutions
and formed new plan OF government
based upon the centraliz alton theory
with all that it implies. During all these
twenty years of misrule OF the Republi
can party moi one law was passed in the
interests Of the people. Every measure
passed by the Republican Congresses
that existed during that regime was
instigated and passed directly in
the interest of monopolies. The evil
effects OF such legislation are seen on
every hand. The discomfort of labor is
traceable directly to its influences
Where wealth was distributed before the
war in proportions more nearly equal
to-day it is centralized in the hands oi
the few, some of whom use it as a means
OF oppression. The great railroads oi
this country, the millions of acres of pub.
lie lands, the peoples heritage, and the
great branches of industry outside oi
agricultural pursuits are in the hands ol
the few. The whole tendencies of the
Republican party have been in
the interes. of the few and
against the masses. Through the
doctrine of hate towards the
south, through race prejudice in the same
section, through threats of destruction tC
the business interests, the country fol
years was held and systematically robbed
and plundered by rapacious Republican
freebooters. The whole aim and mission
in life OF the managers of the Republican
party to-day is to regain control of the
national government, with nothing but
its past crimes and misdemeanors to
offer as guarantee for the future.
The Republican party of to-day has nc
great principles to stand upon, but it is
grounded and founded upon mere pre-
lenses, and is living upon the vapcrings
of cheap, demagogical politicians. Unit
the Republican party can offer some
principles and stand for some great living
issue, it can never again expect to gair
the confidence of the people it so ignobly
forfeited for the spoils of office and the
misuse of power.
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